Song · Rod Stewart
“The Killing of Georgie” by Rod Stewart
“The Killing of Georgie” by Rod Stewart appears on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2001 and 2004. Its best result is #380 on the Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,001 alternative song of all time.
Rod Stewart wrote "The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II)" for A Night on the Town, his 1976 album, and it's a story song with real weight: the life and death of a gay man in New York City. Georgie, a semi-fictional friend of Stewart's, comes out to his parents, gets cast out and rides a Greyhound to New York, where Manhattan's upper crust and the city's gay community both take him in; the last time Stewart sees him, in the summer of 1975, Georgie is in love.
Part I, the half that became the hit, slides into Part II, sadder and more subdued. Tom Dowd produced it for Riva, and as a single in August 1976 it spent ten weeks on the UK chart, peaking at No. 2.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 461 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 500 |
| 2004 | 380 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 500 |
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